CALIFORNIA FARMERS FACING DROUGHT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Drought is once again knocking on the doors of California farmers, who provide the nation's supermarkets with more than half of their produce.A year after record rainfall put an end to a seven-year dry spell that was one of California's worst droughts on record, some farmers here will get only one-third of the water they have contracted to receive from the state -- water they

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Drought is once again knocking on the doors of California farmers, who provide the nation's supermarkets with more than half of their produce.

A year after record rainfall put an end to a seven-year dry spell that was one of California's worst droughts on record, some farmers here will get only one-third of the water they have contracted to receive from the state -- water they desperately need to irrigate their fields in a state that receives virtually no rain du